Nobody tuned in to the BBVA Rising Stars game Friday night of All-Star weekend to watch defense — they wanted to see dunks, crazy passes and guys carpet bombing threes. Then more dunks off ally-oops. Then Jeremy Lin.

In that case, the fans got their money’s worth. Friday night in Orlando there was less defense than your average Nets game.

“It’s important to come out and have fun and compete a little bit,” said the Clippers Blake Griffin (who is playing in this and the big All-Star Game on Sunday night). “These fans come for a reason and we don’t want to disappoint them and not play hard.”

If you want to know why it ended that way, in a game where every three was uncontested Team Chuck shot 55 percent from deep, Team Shaq shot 29.3 percent. Charles Barkley can thank Irving, who had 34 points and was the game MVP.

“He was hot today,” said Irving’s teammate for a night MarShon Brooks of the Nets. “Kyrie can shoot in a real game, so in an exhibition where you’re wide open, I can see that happen. Didn’t surprise me.”

For the guys in the game, this was a chance to have fun and get to know and play with guys they don’t see much.

“We’ve been hearing about Ricky Rubio since like 400 b.c.,” said the Cavaliers’ Tristan Thompson, who was teamed with him. “So finally he’s here playing with us and it’s fun. He can pass the ball, he was hitting some threes, he’s going to be a great player in this league.”

As in most of these exhibitions, guards tend to shine because they have the ball in their hands.

“It’s definitely kind of harder for big guys because we go out there to dunk and block shots, and you don’t want to block and hurt someone (in an exhibition) so it’s really simple: run the floor and dunk. I can do that.”

I hate Florida. I hate them for their bandwagon fans, which will be gone as soon as D12 leaves. And I hate the concept of fan voting. Ruins the dunk contest. And I hate Florida for the Bush-Gore election in 2000, too. Only part I don’t hate is Disney World.